William Gregg (1800 – September 13, 1867) was an ardent advocate of industrialization in antebellum Southern United States. In 1847 he founded the successful Graniteville Company, a large scale Horse Creek Valley, South Carolinacotton mill.
Gregg publicized his ideas in his 1845 Essays on Domestic Industry. He argued that economic domination by the North was best met by Southern industrialization. He gained sufficient support for his own efforts, but was unable to bring about any general change in the agrarian southern economy.

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Gregg, Essays, 39; William Gregg to William B. Seabrook, May 10, 1850, "Advent
of William Gregg," 419. Daniel Pratt, the leading industrialist in Alabama, took a
similar stance. He advocated industry while accepting the values of southern ...

several mills and a factory for the production of cotton gins, which employed as
many as two hundred laborers and produced six hundred gins a year.103
Arguably, the most renowned southern industrialist was William Gregg, a
Virginian who ...

Southern industrialist and textile manufacturer. William Gregg was born on
February 2, 1800, in Carmichaels, Virginia, but went to live with an uncle in
Georgia as a young boy. There Gregg helped establish a cotton mill. He also
apprenticed ...

Several years later industrialist William Gregg complained that the state seemed "
to entertain apprehensions of harming the public weal" by granting charters.8
The state, it seemed, was of two minds about economic development. The
divided ...

1653 New Amsterdam proclaimed a municipality by directorgeneral ofthe Dutch
West Indian Co.; municipal officials appointed. 1800 William Gregg, industrialist,
born near Carmichaels, WV; launched textile industry in South (died 1867).

William Gregg is an
American jeweler and industrialist who founded the Graniteville Company.
William championed industrial revolution earning
him the moniker as the “father of southern cotton manufacturing.”
William was born on
February 2, 1800 in Virginia. His mother, Elizabeth, died when he was just four
so that William grew up under the care of a neighbor until he was ten.